Friday, February 24, 2012

Using Mushrooms to Teach Kids About Food Ownership at ModernMom.com

Have an article on Using Mushrooms to Teach Kids About Food Ownership on the
homepage of Modern Mom today. Here's
just a tidbit:

Using Mushrooms to Teach Kids About Food Ownership

Food is the fuel of human beings. To stay strong and healthy we eat healthy
things. Sounds like a pretty simple concepts right? But sometimes the simplest
of concepts are the hardest.
I know it sounds crazy but one of the biggest relationships we’ll ever have
in our life is with food (another one is money). A kid’s relationship to food
will last their lifetime and will affect every aspect of their life from their
health, to their education, to their career, to their romantic relationships,
to the actual length of their life.

That’s why it’s so important to teach children about ownership when it comes
to what they put in their mouth. Ownership that applies not only what they
should eat (healthy food), to how it’s grown or made (without chemicals), to
how it affects the bigger picture (the environment).
But how do you teach such grand, and somewhat overwhelming, concepts in a
simple and fun way? One great way is using a mushroom kit from Back to the
Roots. It's interactive and fun - kids spray the mushrooms with water as they
grow - and these kits can grow up grow up to 1 1/2 lbs of tasty organic oyster
mushrooms in as little as 10 days right from the box.